Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
Part I Celebrity and Literary Tourism
1 The Virtual City: Literary Tourism and the Construction of "Dickens's London" 27
2 The Haunting of Victorian London: Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot 48
3 The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District 69
Part II Celebrity and Historiography
4 Harriet Martineau: Gender, National Identity, and the Contemporary Historian 95
5 Rooms of the Past: Victorian Women Writers, History, and the Reconstruction of Domestic Space 113
Part III Celebrity and Fin de Siècle Print Culture
6 Women Writers and Celebrity News at the Fin de Siècle 137
7 Representations of the Authorial Body in the British Medical Journal 156
8 The Celebrity Cause: Octavia Hill, Virtual Landscapes, and the Press 175
Coda: Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Canon Formation 195
Notes 207
Bibliography 245
Index 265